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City Council makes amendments to zoning code BY ERIK SUCHY STAFF WRITER
The Vadnais Heights City Council is making various amendments to one of its city codes, set to take effect immediately. The amendments pertain to City Code Chapter 38 and cover beekeeping, outdoor storage and telecommunication antennas. Article 3, Division 5, Section 38-98 focuses on beekeeping, which was previously considered a conditional use within the city’s R-1 district. The amendment will effectively change it to a permitted use. “Applicants will no longer have to pursue a conditional use permit process or pay those fees,” said Planning/ Community Development Director Nolan Wall. “All of the same performance standards remain in effect. It allows them to have a more efficient process to keeping bees if they choose to do so.” Article 3, Division 13, Section 38420 pertains to outdoor storage use, which is only permitted within the city’s industrial district. Much like beekeeping, outdoor storage was originally a conditional use and is now permitted. The amendment will reestablish outdoor storage as a conditional use with additional performance standards. Additionally, there were no performance standards attached to outdoor storage use, except for requirements for screening. “This works in a lot of cases to our advantage because we’re able to say what is screening, but it doesn’t help us tell what we want,” said Wall. “It makes it difficult to implement certain advanced performance standards when our ordinance is vague and non-specific.” Wall added that current standards do not specify the aesthetics for outdoor storage. “Outdoor storage is important to a lot of different industries and local businesses,” said Wall, “and must be done in a way that the city has addressed or created some performance standards to make
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Graduates celebrate a historic milestone at White Bear Lake Area High School Stadium — the district’s first outdoor ceremony since 1983. As the last class to experience both North and South Campuses, the Class of 2025 marked the end of an era and the beginning of a new chapter as the first to graduate from the unified grades 9–12 high school building. Students will now embark on their next adventure, whether that’s continuing their education, going right into the workforce, enlisting in the military, or traveling the world.
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At MNRecyclery, Lynn Kapaun is looking for two qualities for those who want to become bike-fixing volunteers: dedication and mechanical aptitude. “That’s probably the two biggest things,” he says. Kapaun, a Vadnais Heights resident, runs MNRecyclery, a bike repair shop that remodels old bikes and donates them
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been a person to volunteer my entire life. I truly enjoy doing what I’m doing. I never expected it to get this big and do it this long.” The shop has 11 rotating volunteers who fix bikes from Monday through Thursday; some occasionally work on Friday. According to Kapaun, when the shop was initially formed, volunteers averaged fixing
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